When I first started my spiritual journey when an issue around a topic would come up, for example abundance, I would focus on it, and then when I felt that certain feeling of release or ease I would believe that I had successfully dealt with it. Nothing else was to be done in that area. I had cleared it and achieved perfect abundance.
But then years, months, or just a few weeks down the road, something to do with the same topic would rear up in my life again. And I would be frustrated. Didn’t I clear this already? Why is this coming back?
Eventually, I let go of this way of thinking. Instead of believing I could focus on an area once and be done with it forever, I started looking at it as layers and opportunities for growth. Yes, I had worked on a particular topic before, and yes I had made progress, but I had cleared one layer of it. This was a new layer. More to unfold.
I still think this is a better way to look at it. It certainly didn’t have the built-in frustration of my first way of thinking.
But I’m thinking now that I can tweak this belief even more. Instead of looking at it as clearing layers of issues or problems, why not look at it as levelling up? Reaching a new level of patience, becoming more open to abundance, acquiring a new capacity for compassion, for example.
We are moving through and integrating layers of limiting beliefs, fears, prejudices, and conditioning. So perhaps levelling in would be a better way to phrase it. We are working inward, aren’t we? Inward towards our True Selves, our infinite knowing, the beings of love within each of us, that is each of us.
So when I reach a new level of non-judgment, I will enjoy it and be proud of myself. But then when a new situation comes along, and I feel judgement rising up, I’ll know I’ve reached a new layer internally, and that this new challenge is presenting me with an opportunity to level in and become more of my True Self.